Research Interests

• Locomotion in Virtual Environments
• Motion perception
• Avatars and embodiment
• Haptics
• XR platform for CBRN training

Publications

For a full list of my publications, you can refer to the complete list on Google Scholar or ResearchGate.

For more detailed information regarding the main publications, you can refer to the following page.

For more detailed information regarding the dataset available, you can refer to the following page.

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Awards

• Emerging Technologies Best Project Award – SIGGRAPH 2023
  • Official Selection from Laval Virtual Jury
• VGCT Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Honorable Mention – IEEE VR 2023 (link)
  • Dissertation Title: Towards User-Adapted Navigation Techniques in Virtual Environments: Study of Factors Influencing Users Behavior in Virtual Reality

• Best scientific paper award – EURO VR 2020
  • Influence of Dynamic Field of View Restrictions on Rotation Gain Perception in Virtual Environments (link)

• Best IEEE 3DUI contest 2019 award – IEEE VR 2019
  • Pyramid Escape: Design of Novel Passive Haptics Interactions for an Immersive and Modular Scenario (link)

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Collaborations

• Interactive Media Systems, TU Wien
  • Hannes Kaufman, Iana Podkosova – 2018
  • Contribution to a study on the impact of locomotion technique on gaze anticipation and body segments coordination during navigation in Virtual Reality.

• Synthetic Real Lab, University of Central Florida
  • Gerd Bruder – 2020
  • Contribution to the understanding of unintended positional drift during locomotion in Virtual Reality with steering techniques.

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Reviewing

International Conferences

• VR 22 – IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
• ISMAR 20 – 19th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
• VRST 2022 – ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality and Software Technology
• VR 23 – IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
• ISMAR 23 – 22th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
• SUI 23 – ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

Journal

• IEEE TVCG – Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
• IJHCS – International Journal on Human-Computer Studies
• VIRE – Virtual Reality Journal
• Frontiers in Virtual Reality

Student Supervision

Bachelor Theses

• Renate Zhang (08/22-08/23) – User Navigation Behaviour Using Simultaneous Different Locomotion Techniques in Virtual Reality – Development of an experimental platform
• David Skrebic, Milan Kekic (12/22-08/23) – Design of a Multi-User VR Environment for the Web (co-supervised with Iana Podkosova)
• Linda Gan, Barbara Weilgony (09/22-09/23) – Co-embodiment in Virtual Reality (co-supervised with Iana Podkosova)
• Emanuel Weingartner (ongoing) – Towards an explanation of factors influencing UPD – Development of an experimental platform.
• Christoph Pegrisch (ongoing) – Design of a non-human co-embodied avatar (co-supervised with Iana Podkosova)

Master Theses

• Tobias Batik (ongoing) – Shape Changing Haptic Device for Virtual Reality (co-supervised with Hannes Kaufmann and Khrystyna Vasylevska)
• Christoph Götz (ongoing) – Benefits of Smell Interface for Interacting in VR (co-supervised with Hannes Kaufmann and Francesco de Pace)